IWDG's live stranding officer, Gemma O'Connor, is attending the annual Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Animal Welfare seminar in County Kildare today.
Topics covered include grants process changes, outcome-based frameworks for the DAFM charity grants and infection control for animal charities.

Real Voices is an important initiative. Listening to people whose lives will be affected by initiatives such as the designation of marine protected areas is the first important step in building a strategic alliance.
#30x30 #MPA

Lá Béaltaine shona daoibh! Happy May Day!
🌊IWDG Marine Biodiversity Action Month kicks off today. 🐋

Stay tuned for updates, events, and firsthand insights.

#Biodiversity #MarineConservation #Ireland
The Heritage Council Irish Enviro Network

Great to contribute to a session on Marine Protected Areas at the WildMind event in #fenit . Sharing a platform with William Hunt of the #npws and Dolf D'Hont of Coastwatch is always a pleasure.

Great location, great organisation and great turnout.

Images Frances Bermingham

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow at the Baldoyle Bay Biosphere Festival.

Events in Fingal

WILD MIND FESTIVAL FENIT,
CO KERRY 2024 is this weekend with more than 50
events and exhibitors!

Join us at 2pm for some marine protection discussions
and talks at The Barn on Sunday, 28th.

wildmind.ie

#MPA #events #IWDGtalks

Happy Earth Day!🌍
2024: Planet vs. Plastics
IWDG were partners in the largest study of the incidence of marine debris in stranded cetaceans Lusher et al. (2018) Incidence of marine debris in cetaceans in Ireland. Environmental Pollution: iwdg.ie/cms_files/wp-c…

Lovely surprise in the post from Fair Seas partners Irish Whale and Dolphin Group today. A copy of their wonderful Flukes magazine featuring the huge breadth of conservation work they do across Ireland 🇮🇪 🐬🐋

It also includes an article on my own 'People, nature and volunteerism at sea' 👇

UPCOMING EVENTS:
Residential Weekend Whale Watching & Identification Course 🐋

Join IWDG on a weekend whale watching course, comprising indoor presentations, land watches & pelagic trip in search of west Cork's giants.

Register at eventbrite.ie/e/residential-…

📢 Inshore fishing consultation closes on Friday!
Last chance to have your voice heard and to join the growing number of people who have made submissions as part of Minister McConalogue’s consultation on fishing inside the 6nm limit and the baselines at iwdg.ie/fishing-inside…

Today is International Children's Book Day!

We're celebrating today by showcasing our very own children's book: Ireland's Blubber Book / Leabhar Blonaige na hÉireann.

IWDG report on what is likely to be a first for Irish waters. Wed. 27th March produced an intriguing sighting of an interaction between an adult grey seal and a common dolphin, the outcome of which remains uncertain. See full story....
iwdg.ie/grey-seal-inte…

Become an IWDG Live Stranding Responder and join our Stranding Network!
Our training season begins this April. If you've ever wanted to learn how to help at a whale, dolphin or porpoise stranding, now is the time to get involved on our one day course.
iwdg.ie/iwdgresponder-…

☘️ 🇮🇪 Thanks to everyone
who supported us today, we had a great time and were
blessed with the weather too. 😎

Our team looks forward to seeing you all next year.
Slán go fóill 👋

The float is ready!
Happy Saint Patrick's Day to you all! 🍀 May the luck of the Irish be with you, both on land and at sea! 🌊
We are celebrating 25 years of Irish Humpback whale photo ID catalogue this year. 🐋

With Seachtain na Gaeilge in full flow, people all round the country are using their cúpla focal and the following terms might come in handy for some of you using your cúpla focal while on the lookout for cetaceans in Irish waters.

Cian Ó Nialáin, IWDG Oifigeach Gaeilge

Offshore Wind Industrial Strategy Launched 🚀
enterprise.gov.ie/en/publication…

New research from Fair Seas & Plymouth Marine Lab show that that more than half of Irish waters host #climatechange sanctuaries, promoting #biodiversity in the face of unprecedented change. Read more 👇 fairseas.ie/2024/03/13/iri…

#Fairseas #30by30

Photo-identification (photo-ID) is the primary method that the Shannon Dolphin Project use to monitor the Shannon Dolphins. We use images to identify unique and permanent marks, which can be used to recognise individuals in the population.
Learn more at
iwdg.ie/how-to-identif…

Sailing out from Arklow this morning to deploy Static Acoustic Monitoring (SAM) equipment on moorings to log the presence of echolocating odontocetes (harbour porpoise and dolphins) in the south Irish Sea.

#iwdgconsulting